Biggest issue of 2014: Who did Alison Lundergan Grimes vote for in 2012?

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know it wasn’t Mitt

If you’re frustrated with Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaign for U.S. Senate, the first place you should look is the fact that she’s been woefully reluctant to go after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s continued insistence that it’s possible to repeal Obamacare root and branch without repealing Kynect, Kentucky’s popular implementation of Obamacare that is currently insuring more than a half-million Kentuckians. Grimes has largely taken a pass on that issue, even though she could have badly rimracked McConnell’s campaign with it.

Instead, national media types are going after Grimes for refusing to say whether she voted for President Obama in 2012. They aren’t all going as far as NBC’s Chuck Todd, who said Grimes “disqualified” herself by refusing to reveal her ballot choice, but there is still an unhealthy dose of outrage over the least consequential issue at stake in November.

Anybody with a pulse knows the reason Grimes didn’t want to say on camera that she voted for President Obama is that she didn’t want to give McConnell a video clip for a television ad because in Kentucky, the only elected official less popular than Mitch McConnell is Barack Obama. That’s pretty silly of her, but it also won’t have a meaningful impact on anybody’s life.

McConnell’s attempt to have it both ways on Obamacare and Kynect is meaningful, however—and unlike Grimes, who simply refused to answer, McConnell is willfully and unrepentantly spreading false information. To put it in terms national media can understand, what McConnell is doing is like if Grimes had said she voted for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, because she wanted them both to win.

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If McConnell gets away with his doublespeak, then the voters he bamboozled into believing that he supports Kynect but not Obamacare will end up with a rude surprise in 2015 when McConnell leads the push to repeal Obamacare—and Kynect along with it.

That’s something worthy of the media’s attention. And not only that, it’s worthy of Grimes’ attention as well.